20,020 palettes

Spice color palettes

Spice palettes are the open sack: paprika red, turmeric gold, cumin brown, cardamom green and the pale hessian they are sold on. They suit food brands, restaurants with a passport, warm-weather retail — appetite rendered in powder form.

Warm spices blur into one another at the same saturation. Each palette here separates them by both hue family and lightness — one spice per lightness rung — so the market stall reads as five distinct jars, not one long curry.